As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Eugenics is ... the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.